LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner plans to plead not guilty to charges she steered state investments to a bond broker who paid her $36,000 in cash but a judge says she must still appear at a hearing to enter the plea, documents released Monday show.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Joe Volpe denied Shoffner’s request to waive her appearance at Thursday’s arraignment hearing and enter a not guilty plea. Volpe’s order was dated Friday but wasn’t entered into the court system until Monday morning. It didn’t detail the reason for denying her request.

Shoffner was indicted June 5 on 14 federal counts of extortion and bribery charges. She was arrested at her Newport home May 18 after the FBI said it caught her on tape accepting a $6,000 payment from the broker, who hasn’t been identified.

Shoffner, a Democrat who was re-elected in 2010, resigned days after her arrest.

Chuck Banks, Shoffner’s attorney, said he had requested to waive her appearance to avoid the publicity. Shoffner has appeared in court twice since her arrest last month.

“We’re just going there to enter an appearance and enter a plea to a formal grand jury charge and I thought it would be a good way to minimize an extra day of news for Martha,” Banks said. “The judge has said otherwise, so we’ll be there.”

Shoffner faces six counts of extortion under color of official right and one attempted extortion charge for each of the payments the FBI says Shoffner accepted. Those charges carry maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine. The seven bribery charges cover all of the payments Shoffner received, plus the $6,000 payment the FBI said she accepted on tape in May. The bribery charges carry maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.

She was set to plead guilty May 31 to a single extortion charge, but told U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes the payments didn’t affect her decisions as treasurer and that she didn’t intentionally steer business to the broker. Holmes rejected the plea since she wasn’t admitting guilt to all of the elements of the charge. Prosecutors then sought the broader indictment against Shoffner.

Shoffner was arrested after the broker agreed to record the meeting and bring $6,000 in a pie box, according to the affidavit. FBI agents executed a search warrant and found the cash inside a cigarette package in Shoffner’s kitchen. Shoffner admitted that she accepted the payments from the broker, the FBI said in its affidavit.

Shoffner first elected treasurer in 2006 and won a second term in 2010.

Gov. Mike Beebe appointed former Legislative Auditor Charles Robinson to serve the remainder of Shoffner’s term, which ends in January 2015. Robinson is barred from running for the post next year since he was appointed to it.